5 Tues – Endless Expansion (2)
I managed to convince myself.
right. That is another world, that is, an alien world.
No matter what happens, there is nothing strange about it.
In the first place, ants on Earth also sting poison and acid.
“No, anyway, does it make sense to shoot hydrochloric acid?!”
I gave up looking for termites and came home bitten by a mother.
Vampires are already possible for us, so mosquitoes, or fucks, were really useless for anyone.
[It’s good to keep in mind. That cave is a labyrinth that should never be overlooked.]
“I know that.”
A giant spider the size of a king crab, a giant six-tailed scorpion, and more.
He knew that the place where the monsters of the Paleozoic Era lived there, no matter what monsters protrude, it was an unusual place.
[Today will be recorded in the history of the race. The day our race first met an opponent who looked like an opponent]
“…can you win?”
[No one knows that. But one thing is certain: our corps will not stop. If there is an obstacle, it destroys it, and if there is an enemy, it eats it. That’s the only option.]
“It keeps growing and growing… Then what about later? If it devours the whole world.”
[Then I will eat another world]
There was a hint of madness in the letters.
I didn’t really say anything about it.
I was just looking for a site that sold termites for breeding on the Internet.
I thought to myself what was the most important thing in this game.
And what I came to the conclusion was that it was the luck of the draw and the player’s wealth…no, the ability.
“…”
That was the reason I got on the train to the shop on this bloody weekend after I quit my part-time job.
The reason was that I went faster than delivery.
[I don’t understand. I just need to take a picture. Didn’t you say that money was not enough]
“That’s stealing.”
[Even if there is only one ant?]
“…Honestly, it’s a bit harsh.”
Can’t I just swipe an ant?
If you do, you can get a corpse that has just died.
However, upon arrival, the conclusion we reached was simply not to do anything suspicious.
What if I get caught and questioned for trying to save a few thousand won?
As I am now, I did not have the talent to explain the phenomenon of disappearing when I take a picture.
“It’s to stock up on strength in case of war.”
I took the whole termites I bought and sent them to the nest.
After decomposing the termites down to the microbial units that live within them, the swarm now has the ability to digest wood.
I found the back mountain again.
In fact, it is illegal to steal trees.
I don’t know what else to do, but this was unavoidable.
In the mountains without CCTV. I took a picture of a log that was rolling on the floor with my camera.
Due to the 20kg limit, not all of them were transmitted, and only a portion was cut off.
“How about a tree?”
[We will combine the acquired ability with the existing ability to maximize its efficiency]
A thread began to stretch out on a log that had fallen in the middle of the nest.
Before the war, supplies arrived safely.
All that is left now is to wage war on the basis of this supply.
[The nourished corps began to prepare for war. The dormant nest also woke up and began to produce soldiers]
Legions are intelligent.
The many genes absorbed were not simply physical.
By mimicking and combining the fighting methods of each race imprinted on the acquired genes, a single strategic tactic was created.
In particular, group tactics had already been obtained from the genes of bees and ants.
[The corps has dispatched a reconnaissance unit. I was planning to keep fighting them and bring them all out. The winged soldiers sortie. Again, they deployed saliva-spewing troops to the front.]
They are incredibly strong compared to Earth’s ants.
But this one was also well prepared.
And even if it was a war between corps and corps, we had another weapon.
[The Legion, once suffered, will not be defeated again]
The scouts dodged the anti-aircraft guns they spit with precise movements.
Can we really lose if troops of a similar size stick together?
we are one move like one body.
There is no fear or inefficiency.
The scouts dived, grabbing the foes with their stout jaws and feet.
Then he curled up his tail and poked his stinger.
It was the beginning of a real war.
[The corps has finished its judgment. I can win]
When I changed the screen, the waiting main force was leaving all at once.
A large head, a powerful jaw, and a hard carapace.
They knew that the opponent was living by digging a burrow in the bottom, so they were remodeled into a shape that was optimized for it.
[The enemies who were focusing on the sky scouts noticed our main force. But it’s already too late. We took damage from the powerful acid attacks they fire and moved forward only]
I held my breath and watched the scene.
There is no competitor in the organization.
In this war, our only purpose was to annihilate the enemy, and the enemy’s purpose was to survive.
It was common sense that those who prioritized survival were pushed back by an attack that was immortal, as evidenced in human history.
The ants of another world struggling to survive could not stop the troops of the Legion moving only to kill.
The entire pupil, which was quite wide, became a battlefield.
Other lives that had come for nothing were also suddenly caught up in us and devoured by us.
[We won the field battle. They started to block the entrance to the cave with their bodies in a hurry]
We won the war over the whole pupil.
And the enemies retreated to the fortress.
But it was all expected.
Our secret weapon has appeared.
A snake with a thick carapace on its head.
It’s a small snake, but at least enough to pierce their burrows.
Even if it sprayed the acid, there was enough time to push it away with its thick carapace.
The rest of the troops began to enter one after another into the cavern.
What makes you so nervous about just robbing an ant nest?
But in fact, the tide has already turned a lot.
The opponent who had been fighting from the beginning had already been smashed, and the opponent whose resistance had become meaningless had failed the defensive battle and was now just being slaughtered.
[It will be important for you to think broadly]
“…just in case this little war escalates?”
It was an undeniable word.
The Legion will never settle here.
Because it will grow more and fight bigger enemies.
[It cuts the queen of enemies and feeds on caterpillars and eggs. We have won the War of the Legion. This will be recorded in history.]
I glanced at the watch.
only 4 hours.
Within 4 hours, the colony of white cave ants that dominated the 4th floor was captured by us.
It’s simply not all.
Those who were destroyed left us a legacy.
Their weapon, now it could be ours.
A weapon that can capture the beings upstairs.
“Are you really not resting?”
[Because even at rest, our nutrients are consumed]
The legion doesn’t stop.
*
“…”
A wide pupil in a peaceful cave.
This particularly wide place was a place where vegetation developed around the lake in the center.
That meant it was nutrient-dense.
The fungus that actually grew up became a huge mushroom the size of a child and formed a colony.
A toad living here ate something crawling on the floor.
This toad, which is about the level of a small dog, fully enjoyed the texture that bursts in his mouth.
The white cave ant, armed with strong acidity, was one of the lowest-class creatures that lived here on a small scale, unlike the lower floors, which formed a large colony as the ruler of the stairs.
The toad opened his mouth wide and yawned, then moved to another place.
It was a common suburban area.
The toad, who had been moving his sense organs idly, saw his feet in an instant.
[Now is the time to eat higher lives and increase the size of our corps]
Countless ants, even monsters that are difficult to call ants, gathered and began to cling to the body of the toad.
The toad jumped and brushed itself off.
However, other monsters that were flying humming in the air rushed to the toad.
[A new poison that combines strong acidity. A powerful poison that melts the target’s nerves and blood vessels]
The venom injected with a stinger’s tail is no longer an ordinary bee venom.
Even thick leather, which is immune to acid, could not withstand the acid that was directly stabbed and put inside.
The toad’s huge body, which had struggled with this relentless attack, slowly collapsed.
[The predators of the predators are our prey]
Something found the toad’s body and flew through the air quickly.
It was a large bat flapping its two pairs of wings piled up in a shell.
But the moment I grabbed the toad with my claws.
The legion that was covering the body of the toad also rushed to the bat.
A bewildered bat flew away.
The bat’s body was covered in fur, but it had a skin that was much thinner than that of a toad.
The soldiers of the Legion crawled around the bat’s body and began to bite the thin film of its flapping wings.
[…Now is the beginning]
The bat, with its raged wings, eventually stumbled to and fro and crashed to the ground.
It was the moment when the black wave that climbed up from the lowest floor of the labyrinth, which was the poorest, began to overturn the ecosystem of this labyrinth in earnest.